If the inductive energy, through some exterior cause, could
be made suddenly to increase enormously, there would come a point
when the body would be supported, or rather suspended, before it
reached the earth's surface.
The new Technique could accomplish this by placing a
Schappeller Stator in the body in question, where the body is
suitably constructed, thus setting up a glowing magnetic
stressfield which would hold or keep the weight or mass of the
unit body suspended, not in the air—the stressfield would have
no reaction on the air—but only on the earth's magnetic
stressfield.
This is the basis of the new principle for "ether ships""
Employing the Schappeller mechanism is only half the total
explanation. In a field propulsion saucer there are possible two
types of "drive" needed. The first is the "Auftrieb" or
levitation. Employment of levitation makes the craft buoyant.
It weighs nothing. If it weighs nothing it can be moved very
easily. "Antrieb", impulse or motive power is the second drive
involved. It moves the craft directionally. Levitation only
would be supplied by the Schappeller system. Directional
movement is so far best explained, in my mind, using the Tesla
pancake coils as explained by Bill Lyne.
Concluding Thoughts on the Schappeller Device
In the end, what can be said of the Schappeller device?
certainly, it did exist. It drew attention and funding from
people within the German government of the time. It was studied
by a qualified outsider, a British engineer, for a period of
three years and was judged to be genuine.
There are some obvious problems, however. Exotic energies have
been evoked which have not been explained satisfactorily.
Therefore, the facts are not in evidence yet. Certainly more
proof is required before the claims made for this device or the
energies involved can be wholly accepted. For the time being we
must put this discussion aside, awaiting further correlations.
There are some solutions connected with this device also. If we
accept the idea that both the Schauberger and the Schappeller
devices worked on the theory of implosion, then one explanation
will serve to explain them both. It also allows for an ether-asmatter explanation. This may fit into the evidence gathered by
Nikola Tesla. The commonality of these devices could then be
sought and perhaps a more efficient device built as a result. We
will pick up this theme again in the discussion section of this
book.
It should be pointed out that the quest for this "new science" is
not specific to Schappeller or Schauberger. Mr. Watson passed on
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